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45 today. 🙏🏿 Been rough but we still here. My momma took these 💜
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This remains my favorite Denzel Washington video (a random pull-up on the Southside of Chicago looking for BBQ)
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“People hate me because I’m 19 and think I’m a doe-eyed kid but I’m a political strategist for one of the biggest youth organizations in the country. This was almost like a gift from Matt Gaetz.”
Whew.
Rep. Matt Gaetz tried to body shame a 19-year-old abortion rights activist. In the 48 hours since,
@0liviajulianna
has raised over $168,000 for abortion funds.
@TeenVogue
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Dallas now has a Police Chief who is a Black woman, a Sheriff who is a Black woman and a DA who is a Black man replacing a Black woman. Dallas County SHOULD be the most progressive law enforcement county in the country. Now is the time to apply pressure. We need abolitionists.
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I want this job. Hire me to be your personal book curator. I will have your bookshelves lit.
Gwyneth Paltrow Hired a Personal Book Curator. Here's What He Chose For Her Shelves. |
@townandco
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Dallas didn’t invest in the communities you see until Black people were removed from Freedman’s town and Latinx people were displaced from Little Mexico. Both of these communities were combined to form Uptown, and the rest is a new whitewashed gentrification history.
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The vulnerable version of HOV really affected me. Seeing arguably the GOAT rapper kissing his woman's ankles is a paradigm shift.
#LEMONADE
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Dora Fontaine is putting her life and career on the line telling the truth about her fellow Chicago Police Department officers. CPD officers are calling her a rat, even though they encourage community members to tell all the time.
“It was a lie,” Chicago police officer Dora Fontaine said, referring to a statement that Laquan McDonald “raised his arm as if attacking Officer Jason Van Dyke” before the officer fatally shot the teenager 16 times.
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It’s the best policy idea in years, besides giving people actual money. Both work & data says so. Giving police more money is the least innovative, least imaginative & least effective strategy a politician has to help people. You can’t stand for Equity & more police. Not possible
It was also a bad political idea that was supported by real people, many of whom protested outside my house late at night for weeks and showed up at city council meetings demanding I support it. It wasn’t just bad branding. It was a bad policy proposal that I rejected from Day 1.
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“I don’t know...CPS suggest that the entire community of Englewood can go an entire year without access to a high school...What are you saying to the people there?...anybody with a HS kid has to think about what they’re going to do. It’s just a device to empty out the community”
Illinois governor candidate Chris Kennedy accuses Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading "strategic gentrification plan” to force black people out of Chicago
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There are communities in Dallas WITHOUT GROCERY STORES.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson says he’ll propose restoring $10 million in police overtime
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What an image.
The Nonprofit Case to Defund the Police: Now is the time to fully fund social services in the name of public safety.
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Of course they are.
After touting the importance of having conversations about race last summer, the Gainses are backing an anti-critical race theory school board candidate
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A lot of us worked hard on this.
A new sign was installed this morning at
#DallasISD
's Stonewall Jackson Elementary to reflect its new name, Mockingbird Elementary, which goes into effect July 1. District staff have been hard at work creating signs for schools that will have new names.
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If there is still confusion about the institution…They have been making and selling these racist police coins for years. Here is an older one:
The coin - which was commemorating the 15-year anniversary of the Dallas Police Department's South Central patrol division - depicted a Pillsbury Dough Boy holding cash and a gun as he stands behind an apparent drug house.
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Embarrassing.
29 members of U.S. Congress have asked Canada to consider reopening border.
@RepKathleenRice
tells
@nilkoksalcbc
why she thinks it's time for a a phased reopening
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Watching
#SurvivingRKelly
. I’m from Chicago and saw him at my high school (Whitney Young) talking to teenage girls. We all knew.
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Did just see Black people tweeting “I am an American” to Mitch McConnell??? We down bad.
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Jodeci STILL is! Last week:
I wasn’t talking “credibility”-which frankly, I don’t how to define nor do I really care about it. I was talking “cool,” a specific style of seemingly effortless, anti-establishment, unapologetic self-presentation that comes from jazz. Boyz II Men sang odes to their momma; Jodeci
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Part 2!:
91-Year-Old Chicago grandmother from Denzel Washington viral video surprises him! 😍
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This is what an inequitable city looks like.
Hundreds in line at Jerry’s Supermarket in Oak Cliff just to register for the vaccine.
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Imagine if the
@CityOfDallas
decided to spend $4 billion dollars on Oak Cliff, South/Southern and West Dallas? It would transform the city. What a waste of money. This is not for Dallas residents. We hardly use the Convention center we have now.
Dallas City Council members approved a $4 billion plan to tear down the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center and build a new facility west of Lamar Street.
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Abolish them.
Mass incarceration has raised the American poverty rate by an estimated 20%
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In Dallas, between 1941 and 1951, there were at least 30 bombings targeting Black homes.
In Chicago, between 1917 and 1921, there were 58 bombings targeting Black homes.
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Dallas is on edge because of racism from its institutions, and silence from non-Black communities.
#BothamShemJean
#BothamJean
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Pro-life, huh?
Migrant girl separated from family had to get diapers changed by other detained kids: report
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Dallas is one the worst cities for child poverty IN THE COUNTRY. It had the highest child poverty rate among big cities just a few years ago. More police can’t fix that. They can only make that number worse.
Mayor Johnson calls for more police officers in next budget
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In 2018, healthy Black women are dying in the hospital during and after childbirth at alarming rates. This is an emergency and a direct result of racism.
All signs pointed to a healthy delivery. She never missed a prenatal visit, and received great reports each time. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Then her husband made a disturbing discovery:
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Unpopular opinion: Parents are not equipped to customize education for their kids, and the state government definitely is not. That’s why we have public school systems in the first place. It’s someone’s actual job. Y’all saw what happened during the height of the quarantine.
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Persecuted by his country and assassinated by gun violence.
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I was asked to write this and I was emotional and angry. Tired, really. But I wanted to share my thought process when writing these 750+ words about the proximity of premature death/racism in Dallas and in this country. THREAD.
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A COUP
Just in time for Christmas:
The Legislative Council has sent draft language for a proposed law that would transfer control of the Austin Police Department to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
One way or another we will pass a law to keep Austin safe.
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We gotta ask better questions. Why are people not engaged in this electoral system? What is stopping them from voting? Did people even know about the election? Did they know who to vote for? Why or why not? In places where voter turnout is higher, what is different?
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I thought they meant the ‘Black’ “going home” for a min. Whew. Great news!
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The statement 'Blue Lives Matter' is a racist co-option, FYI.
Chicago Police quite literally protesting police accountability at City Hall this morning with Blue Lives Matter signs. |
#NoCopAcademy
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Thread: Let’s talk about I-345 again. Because the Black Dallas communities it destroyed represents our Greenwood/Tulsa. This is I-345:
The harsh truths are…this highway was designed with racist intent & constructed with a devastatingly racist impact. It needs to be torn down. However, if I-345 is torn down, Black people will not benefit directly from its destruction. There exists no policy to repair the breach.
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This is the saddest picture I’ve ever seen in my life. My GOD.
How does America’s 9th largest city lower its violent crime, including murders, TWO YEARS IN A ROW, when crime is up in other big cities? Starts at the top with your mayor and police chief. My relationship with
@DallasPD
@DPDChiefGarcia
is a blessing from God.🙏🏾💪🏾
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Never forget: The
@dallasnews
editorial board chose not to endorse a 2020 presidential candidate.
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I worked for a fatherhood program on the Southside of Chicago for 8 YEARS. Obama was wrong, and you are wrong. We can support fathers without repeating GOP rhetoric and supporting racist politicians. Please read about federal housing policy and fatherhood.
2 days ago I spoke on behalf of a Florida bill that supports dads & families and it offended some people. 14 yrs ago Pres Obama said the same things almost verbatim. I’m assuming people were outraged at him too. I am serving the Lord so I’ll keep supporting dads and families.🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Black and Brown people relying on cars to get to work from their segregated communities to jobs in wealthier white segregated communities is a way to entrench racial segregation and poverty for another 50 years.
At
#Tribfest22
, TxDOT’s Brian Barth says city of Dallas and Dallas County both “widely support” burying and decking I-345 and that removal is off the table because it would “severely” impact “low-income folks in South Dallas” who need the highway to access “high-paying jobs.”
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These people are unhinged
Hidden cameras aim to expose DEI efforts in Texas colleges despite ban
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Starting a thread to help, Gov.
#1836Syllabus
Add to the thread.
To keep Texas the best state in the nation, we can never forget WHY our state is so exceptional.
I signed a law establishing the 1836 project, which promotes patriotic education & ensures future generations understand TX values.
Together, we'll keep our rich history alive.
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An emotional day: The 1st (& largest) historical marker in Dallas County to acknowledge white supremacist violence & terror was unveiled in downtown Dallas on the corner of Main & Akard. Love to
@RBDallasHistory
,
@DallasCountyJI
,
@eji_org
&
@DallasTRHT
.
#AllenBrooks
#HowWeHeal
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Been thinking a lot about how cities & their residents don’t respect Black spaces, Black people & Black people in Black spaces. Also how spaces that were created for & by Black people rarely have Black people in them at all anymore. This is Rev. Allen R. Griggs Park in Dallas, TX
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Things like this make it difficult for the community to trust
@dallasnews
reporters, who generally feel different than this Editorial Board. How embarrassing it is to hire a Black woman to run this paper and then continue to endorse racists and fascists.
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Couldn’t read it at first. Finally sat and read it three times. It still haunts me.
@zaccrain
, you did the Black Fair Park families’ justice, and wrote it with care, truth and compassion. Much respect to
@ChristineDMag
for taking a risk on us, Go get the latest
@DMagazine
issue.
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This title erases Black Jewish people, Jews of color and white Jewish people who want an end to war and occupation.
Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies
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Is there room to acknowledge the career risk
@Beyonce
is taking by celebrating her love for Blackness in a racist music industry?
#Formation
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Dallas lost one of our giants today. Dr. George Keaton, the founder of
@RBDallasHistory
, was the collector, keeper and sharer of the undertold, neglected and oppressed stories of Black Dallas, and his impact on the city will be felt for generations.
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I work closely with the people at Temple Emanu-El and they don’t deserve this. This antisemitism comes from a root that is often unaddressed in Dallas: the fallacy of white supremacy. Who at the
@CityOfDallas
is ready to address this?
A handful of neo-Nazis, including Ronald Murray and someone who looks a lot like another I recently identified named Barry Young, were spotted outside the Temple Emanu-el synagogue in Dallas.
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I hope this is a signal to folks that these people hate all of us, that they are fighting a war against us, that if they get rid of DEI, they will get rid of everything else that is good for most of us, and that a radical political framework is necessary for your existence here.
All state-funded colleges and universities in Texas will have to close their diversity, equity and inclusion offices under a measure signed into law by Gov. Abbott.
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Please watch this.
Josh Paul resigned from the State Department this week over the U.S. response to the Israel-Hamas war. In his public resignation letter, he calls the transfer of weapons to Israel "destructive and unjust."
@nickschifrin
spoke with Paul for more.
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Kendrick gave a shout out to Nas, who criminally has never won a Grammy, and ILLMATIC. Love him forever for that.
#GRAMMYs
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UT Austin’s Black undergraduate student population is 5.5% (2022). The State of Texas has the largest population of Black people in the country.
Since the Supreme Court’s 2016 ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas, The University of Texas at Austin has continued to recruit and enroll consistently stronger classes composed of students from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and improved graduation rates among all
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Dallas City Hall and Library
dune is a movie about how brutalism will be vindicated in give or take 10,000 years
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Unfortunately for Abbott and his racist crew, we are about to turn up on Texas. In this next year, we are about to produce, release and rerelease multiple projects, educational opportunities, and books about the history of racism in Texas.
My latest on Texas and tha attacks on critical race theory.
The Lone Star State is shining a light on how white backlash always follows black progress.
Texas wants to suppress our history, too
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Got my first dose of the vaccine today, & still, 3 months into an inequitable vaccination rollout, I was surrounded by white people.
EQUITABLE POLICY SUGGESTION:
If a Black person or Latino/x person shows up to a vaccination site without an appointment, VACCINATE THEM ANYWAY.
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Every time I see a message on the Omni and Reunion Tower, I remember how the
@CityOfDallas
blatantly REFUSED to support its own Black residents through these symbolic methods.
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Literally
Was literally abt to say…
I **remember** in 2006 when the FBI told us that white supremacists were infiltrating law enforcement on local, regional, state & national levels. I REMEMBER.
Now, here we are.
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This is what we have been asking
@dallasnews
to do. Very explicit about harm to Black people in Maryland.
Good start
@baltimoresun
.
EDITORIAL: Through its news coverage and editorial opinions, The Sun sharpened, preserved and furthered the structural racism that continues to harm Black Marylanders in our communities today.
For this, we are deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry.
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Need to see pics of Black men enjoying nature in this thread ASAP. Let me see ya 👀 I know you're out there.
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Raise money for clean water in
#Flint
instead
@DrJillStein
Jill Stein raised more than $2.5 million in less than 24 hours for ballot recounts in three states
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Just saw
@QueenAndSlim
with my kids in a Black movie theater in New Orleans. BEAUTIFUL film. There was a toddler dancing to “Still Tippin’” & when folks saw their beloved NOLA on the screen, you felt the 💜. So much to say but so good
@melinamatsoukas
@LenaWaithe
#QueenAndSlim
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One day, we will discuss the complete transfer of exploitative domestic labor from Black people to Mexican and Central American immigrants in Dallas over this period. White wealthy Dallas people once created community additions just for its Black domestic workers after slavery.
From the 1980 article "Jim Crow Dies Hard in Dallas". Good lord.
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I have been YELLING about the behavior and actions of this party traitor for a long time, and people thought I was doing too much. We now have a right wing plant openly trying to undermine and destroy the work we have done to make this a more equitable city. We need him out now.
I have no intention of changing my approach to my job as mayor of Dallas. But today I am changing my party affiliation, writes
@Johnson4Dallas
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Anyone taking pictures with this person, supporting this person, or voting for this person is in opposition to justice, and is my new nemesis. Private or public.
Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers.
He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.
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I finally met
@SankofaTravelHr
! THE Black people’s travel historian! Learned so much from her over the years.
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Dallas is not a ‘world class city,’
@ChadWestDallas
. If a city is not walkable, bikeable and public transportation is poor, it ain’t no where near world class. 90% of the city is sidewalk-poor. The city’s culture is business so no tourism. The council has to invest in people.
Dallas council member West: Cutting city staff salaries is no way to build a world-class city
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People in Dallas can fix every large issue almost overnight if they cared and had the willpower to spend a little of their money. Very interesting place.
Dallas ranks among wealthiest cities in the world as millionaire count grows
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I actually got time today, and the Mayor of Dallas standing by markers of enslaved people without even a mention of the legacy of enslavement in Dallas, Texas pissed me off.
Here is a little thread about slavery in Dallas County 🧵
This is the work of
@RBDallasHistory
. I voted on these markers as part of the Dallas County Historical Commission. I actually sent that Jane Elkins marker back for revisions because it was missing vital information.
@CityOfDallas
has done little to address its legacy of slavery.
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Dallas has the worst economic mobility by neighborhood in the country.
The world's tallest interactive fountain is coming to Dallas! It will feature a highly-reflective pool for people to enjoy and there will be a fireworks-like water show each evening.
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Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Jordan Davis, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Renisha McBride, Tony McDade, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott Alton Sterling & many more would like a word.
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Whenever I read/hear people talking about Jordans or passports, I remember
@prisonculture
's words: PUNCH UP at people with power, not down.
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Yesterday was a good day. Today, I’m in deep appreciation of my people, community and coworkers.
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I am one of Mayor Eric Johnson’s most vocal critics. He should be proud of that.
I wrote an op-ed about the Mayor of Dallas. Will share it tomorrow.
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I recently won this postcard of the lynching of Allen Brooks in an auction. This spectacle of white violence and depravity happened in downtown Dallas, TX (1910). I can not explain enough how rare this is, and how significant this event was to
@CityOfDallas
and to the country.
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A singular talent. People can’t do this.
Gladys Knight presenting the Grammy award Best Song while singing each nominee in 1974.
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I know some Preston Hollow cribs still have deed restrictions saying White people can’t sell their house to Black people, but anyone is welcome to purchase this for me, primarily for this library.
See the two-story library in this custom Preston Hollow home
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Dope video
@projectnia
and
@prisonculture
! We are going to show this to our young people at the free
@YLSCmovement
racial justice summit for high schoolers next Saturday!
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Black people tried to tell white people that no one is safe from state violence.
#JosephHutcheson
#ZacharyHammond
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Shawnna used to buy bootleg CDs from me on Western. A G, and one of the best MCs period.
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This state is WILD. Grid out here hanging on a thread. 78! They still haven't taken responsibility for the hundreds of people who died when the weak grid failed during the winter storm! Meanwhile, CRT and abortion!
Texans: conserve your energy use! ERCOT is asking all consumers to turn up the thermostat to 78 degrees and take other steps to alleviate electric demand as supply could be outpaced this afternoon.
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When 90% of registered voters are not voting, that is not the fault of potential voters. That means something is disastrously wrong with the institution, or it is working perfectly for a group of people who like it that way. Hold the system accountable, not users of the system.
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No TF we must not. Do you know that $5 billion can create thriving conditions that make a jail complex obsolete?
The price hurts, but Dallas County must consider new $5 billion jail complex | Opinion
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I was asked to take a picture in front of a plantation AND with an armed police officer HOLDING an equity sign so that’s how my morning started. 🤬
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